Film producer Boney Kapoor, who married Indian actress Sridevi back in 1997, turns 70 today. The prominent and passionate film maker has had several well-documented career highs and lows, personal triumphs and tragedies, yet he marches on steadily with four children and the Kapoor legacy in tow.
When Sridevi was alive, she hosted private parties for Kapoor on his birthday, big and small, depending on the year, trying to get the entire family under one roof. But now, the jet-setting kids are working hard, away from home and hearth, linked by zoom, if not proximity. Even Kapoor seems to have mellowed down as announcements of his projects seemed to have simmered down.
He owns the IP of Mr.India, and rumour has it a three-part sequel is in the works, but without Sridevi, Amrish Puri, Saroj Khan, Anand Bakshi, Laxmikant Pyarelal... all the ingredients that made the original such a popular phenomenon, we wonder if the upcoming film will have the innocence and soul of its original predecessor. Let's wait and watch...
Boney Kapoor's Film Production Overview
Boney Kapoor (despite being rather surprisingly good in Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar (2023) and AK vs AK (2020)!) is mostly known for being a prominent Indian film producer, for his work in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu cinema. Based on his filmography, he has produced approximately 32 films as of November 2025 (including multi-language releases but excluding unreleased projects like It's My Life and web series like Jeet Ki Zid and other reality shows and sitcom on TV). This count is derived from a comprehensive list of his film productions spanning from 1980 to 2024.
Breakdown of Hits and Flops
Verdicts are based on box office performance relative to budget and collections (e.g., hits recover costs and profit moderately; flops underperform). Note that some films are classified as "semi-hit" or "average" but are grouped here as hits for simplicity if they were profitable. Recent South Indian remakes have boosted his hit ratio.
Pls note, below is a guesstimate, kindly fact check or take with a pinch of salt - as we do most film reports and journalism!
Key Insights
Early Success (1980s-2000s): Kapoor had strong runs with family dramas and action films, peaking with blockbusters like Mr. India, No Entry and Wanted. He often remade South Indian hits, which worked well initially, including profitable ventures like the critical and commercial hit Woh Saat Din, which featured knock-out performances by Anil Kapoor and Padmini Kolhapure back in the summer of 1983. In fact, even his first film, Hum Paanch, a modest-budget but all-star cast venture, was a huge hit (cost of production vs returns) and the seventh highest grosser of 1980 in Bollywood. With two Hindi films kept somewhat within budget, Kapoor went all out to make Mr.India, an expensive proposition that luck and talent favoured. Mr.India went on to become a runaway success as the second biggest hit of Bollywood in 1987, a timeless classic that's a favourite of many--till date.
Then followed a double whammy; the expensive fiasco Roop ki Rani Choron Ka Raja and the failure-to- launch Prem in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Proving time and again, you can have all the right ingredients but never know what the public wants, the dizzying highs led to catastrophic lows.
Post-2010 Challenges: Kapoor saw the light again thereafter, the wildly successful Salman Khan-led No Entry and Wanted brought a smile back, but Kapoor's rollercoaster career faced a dry spell with flops again until venturing into Tamil/Telugu remakes like Pink adaptation, which delivered recent hits, alongside successes like Mom, which featured a tour-de-force performance by his late wife, the great Sridevi.
Kapoor's career graph looks like the printed chart of a heart-beat monitor, several ups and downs, but steadily he goes. Whether he's plugging his son's film or talking with rigour about what it takes to make a movie in India, he puts everything into his projects. Right down to his last designer-shirt.
Overall Success Rate: About 44% hits, reflecting the high-risk nature of Bollywood production. His total box office collections exceed ₹2,000 crore* adjusted for inflation, driven by a few mega-hits and humbled by a few losses.
Whatever next Mr Kapoor?
* This analysis draws from reliable sources like Wikipedia and Box Office India snippets. Verdicts can vary slightly by source due to regional markets.
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